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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson receives a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in London

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Covid-19: After Chinese jab, Imran tests +ve; Boris gets first A-Z shot

March 20, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: Two days after he got himself administered with a Chinese vaccine, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi tested Covid-19. His British counterpart Boris Johnson was administered the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, media reported on Saturday. Reports from Islamabad said Khan tested positive for Covid-19 after he received the first dose […]

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Dattatreya Hosabale is new RSS General Secretary

March 20, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Bengaluru: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday announced that senior RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale will be the new Sarkaryavah (General Secretary) of the organization, replacing septuagenarian Bhaiyyaji Joshi, who has sought retirement. Announcing this, Arun Kumar, Akhil Bharatiya Prachar Pramukh, said the incumbent Bhaiyyaji Joshi, 74, had expressed the desire to be relieved of […]

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Covid-19: As world battles fresh spike, India emerging as global pharmacy

March 19, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: While some countries are battling against a fresh outbreak of Covid-19, India is emerging as a global hub for manufacturing vaccines developed by other countries, primarily the UK and Russia—with billions of does in the pipeline for 2021. Hyderabad, in particular, is emerging as the world’s vaccine capital. India’ ongoing […]

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Global Indians: With the US opening ‘flood gates’, migration may spike

March 19, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Joe Biden Administration virtually opening ‘flood gates’ migration to the United States from different countries, including India, is expected to rise manifold in the near future—and add more ‘color’ to the White-dominated population. The US House of Representatives (Lower House of Parliament) has just passed two key bills that […]

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Green energy: USAID, DFC to finance $41 mn to Indian SMEs

March 19, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: India’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) engaged in renewable energy solutions, which face difficulty in financing, can now breathe easier with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) announcing a USD 41 million (Rs. 297 crores) loan guarantee program to finance investment. […]

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Work culture: Japan govt staff fined for leaving office 2 minutes earlier!

March 18, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The Japanese are internationally known to be punctual. How punctual they are—and are expected to be—became clear recently when a government department punished its staff members with fines for leaving the office just two minutes earlier. Early this month, when the employees of a government office in Japan left for home […]

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Roving Periscope: 150 killed in 6 weeks in ‘Burning Burma’

March 18, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Nearly 150 pro-democracy protestors have been killed and more than 2,000 arrested since February 1 when the military junta, accusing an ‘election fraud’, staged a coup in Myanmar, and toppled the democratically-elected government led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The United Nations said at least 149 people have […]

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Covid-19: ‘Vaccine nationalism’ may hurt WHO’s goals, says Poonawala

March 17, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit Mumbai: ‘Vaccine nationalism’ in shot-manufacturing countries, like the U.S. and India, is likely to derail efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) to deliver some two billion doses to poorer and middle-income nations by the end of 2021. According to Adar Poonawalla, CEO of Pune-based Serum Institute of India Ltd. (SII), some countries […]

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Nirmala assures not all banks will be privatized

March 16, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: On the second day of the two-day strike by employees of public sector banks (PSBs) on Tuesday, against privatization of banks, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman assured that the government intended to privatize no more banks. Amid an uproar from the Opposition and bank unions over the privatization of some PSBs, she said the […]

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Roving Periscope: Angry Myanmar people torch many Chinese factories

March 16, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: At least 38 people were killed in Yangon on Sunday when the army opened indiscriminate fire on irate mobs which, suspecting Beijing’s hand in the February 1 military coup in Myanmar, torched several Chinese-owned garment factories, leading to the military clamping martial law in parts of the city. For more than […]